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Arumac

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Ship buying menu
« on: May 12, 2013, 05:53:09 PM »

The screen that shows a ship's stats when you're looking to buy it is pretty well made, I like the layout of it, and I like the thorough amount of information it gives. But the one gripe I have is that with weapon mounts, it simply says "x number Large Energy, or x number Medium Missile, etc. I think it needs to say x number Large energy turrets, or hardpoints, something like that.

I remember reading that you were planning on implementing a change with saving, to were you could only save when you exited the game. So I feel like you would need to display more information about that sort of thing, it's kindof a big deal if you buy a ship expecting one thing, and getting something completely different, and now you're stuck with it.
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Re: Ship buying menu
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2013, 07:46:19 PM »

The screen that shows a ship's stats when you're looking to buy it is pretty well made, I like the layout of it, and I like the thorough amount of information it gives. But the one gripe I have is that with weapon mounts, it simply says "x number Large Energy, or x number Medium Missile, etc. I think it needs to say x number Large energy turrets, or hardpoints, something like that.

I remember reading that you were planning on implementing a change with saving, to were you could only save when you exited the game. So I feel like you would need to display more information about that sort of thing, it's kindof a big deal if you buy a ship expecting one thing, and getting something completely different, and now you're stuck with it.

i also wish it would show firing arc, but maybe thats a bit much
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Re: Ship buying menu
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2013, 09:07:04 PM »

I've been kind of expecting that, eventually down the development line, upon 'buying' a ship you're presented with something like the re-fitting screen; along with the ability to cancel the process for a full refund.
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Re: Ship buying menu
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2013, 10:10:11 PM »

We already had something like that.

http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=6103.msg97901#msg97901

That being said, I'd love to see something like Gothars (in the link) suggested.
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Re: Ship buying menu
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2013, 07:35:21 PM »

Firing Arcs or something like that in the codex, with a little button link to the codex in the buy menu would work well.
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